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Originally Posted by Brian Bosse  Hello CC,
As you stated, the law of indetity could be represented by:
LOI: If A, then A.
The other two laws commonly refered to as the laws of thought are the law of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. These could be represented as...
LNC: ~(A and ~A). ('~' represents "it is not the case that".)
LEM: (A or ~A). |
Perhaps I am making this too hard on myself, lol. I do understand that the LOI is correctly expressed as
If A, then A as in the quote, but I am not quite sure that I understand what that means. Is it just "If the car is red, then the car is red"? I think I'm having trouble understanding why this would even be necessary to point out and use as a necessary law. What does it mean that "without this law, identity or sameness is lost"?